Rack, enclosure and patch panel are typically cable management equipment used to secure and organize cables in data center. As the scale of data center enlarges day after day, the heating problem is paid more and more attention by people to avoid the low efficiency caused by overheating. Blanking panel, also known as filler panel, […]
Cables Management
How To Use A Fiber Optic Patch Panel
What Is a Fiber Optic Patch Panel? Patch panel is defined as the interface between multiple optical fibers and optical equipment. It’s a termination unit that helps networking and fiber distribution from wiring closet to various terminal equipment. Fiber optic patch panel is a mounted hardware unit containing an assembly of port locations in a […]
How to Connect Patch Panel to Switch – Take 24 Port Patch Panel for 24 Port Switch as Examples
Patch panel is intensively applied in the Ethernet cabling installation and regarded as a critical component in the entire cabling systems. Typically, patch panels are available in various port densities from 12 port to 48 port. Among those different ports, the 24 port patch panel is the most fashionable choice to connect gigabit switch for […]
How to Use Fiber Enclosure in Multi-Floor Data Center?
In the previous post—Modular Patching Solutions for Flexible Cable Management, I have introduced one kind of FHD fiber enclosure with user-friendly slide-out drawer and flexible mounting options. Actually, besides that rack mount fiber enclosure, there is another kind of FHD fiber enclosure useful in the cable running and managing: wall mount fiber enclosure. It is […]
Modular Patching Solutions for Flexible Cable Management
As is known to all, data center cable management is not that easy. If the cables are not managed well at first, managing the cables will be a nightmare at last. So how to quickly and effectively manage your data center cabling in the beginning would become particularly important. Modular patching solutions are practical ways […]
Type A MTP Cassette and Type B MTP Cassette: When and Where to Use?
Modular system, which allows for rapid deployment of high density data center infrastructure and improved troubleshooting and reconfiguration during MACs, is more and more popular. MTP cassette, topic of this post, is such a module. It provides a secure transition between MTP and LC or SC discreet connectors, and is used to interconnect MTP backbone […]